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National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP)

Recent Activities: MAINE

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

  • avian influenza
  • plague & tularemia
  • rabies
  • Baylisarscis procyonis
  • vector-borne diseases

SPECIAL INTEREST

Maine utilizes falconry community to assist with avian influenza surveillance (2008)
Although falconry success rates are relatively low compared to other methods of hunting, the falconers in Maine have an extended hunting season for ducks, which goes through the end of February. Collecting samples from the falconry community allows Maine to have an extended hunting season for ducks.

Contact:
Wildlife Disease Biologist Kirk Shively (ME)
(207)622-8263
Kirk.J.Shively@aphis.usda.gov

 

 


 

 


 

 

 

Last Modified: June 26, 2009